Straight shot up the rail shot... rattle it out a lot!?

If your just trying to run an object ball straight up a rail it depends on the angle the cue ball is at.

If your just trying to run the Object ball up the rail and the cue ball is anywhere from about 80 degrees/ almost straight at the OB, to about A 45 degree angle, Use extreme inside English and hit the rail just in front of the object ball. This should run the OB up the rail into the pocket. This is an extreme cut shot that will run the OB up the rail.

If you are trying to use draw and run the OB (OBJECT BALL) up the rail, you need to apply bottom left or right English depending on what side of the table you are trying to send the OB to, and to prevent the OB from BOBBLING in the pocket. For example if you are cutting the OB to the LEFT up the rail with a draw shot, you would use bottom right on the cue ball to throw it down the rail. The opposite is true for cutting the ball to the right.

One more little element needs to be used when doing this. If you use just outside bottom on the stroke it will throw the OB out away from the pocket, so you need to elevate the back of your cue stick to almost a 45 degree angle, this will send your OB into the pocket and the cue ball will draw backward and across the table allowing you to get position on a ball behind the OB. Speed of stroke will determine where the final resting place for the cue ball after the draw shot.

On other cut shots up the rail just hit the cue ball in its center, and hit just in front of the object ball. Just Barily miss it, this should run the object ball up the rail.

It all depends on the kind of shape you want to get after you run the OB up the rail.

You don't need to "hit the cue ball" stroke through the cue ball about 8 inchs with a slow to medium stroke.

yes you hit the object ball to hard